Why is Humpty Dumpty usually drawn as an egg? Never once in the nursery rhyme is he described as an egg.

Maybe he was just a guy sitting on a wall.

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This is one of those useless pieces of information in my head but, from my understanding, the poem was first written as a riddle with the answer being "an egg."

VioletRayne · 31-35, F

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BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

That actually makes sense.